diff --git a/vscode-extension/syntaxes/numbat.tmLanguage.json b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/numbat.tmLanguage.json
index f1e11773..578030ef 100644
--- a/vscode-extension/syntaxes/numbat.tmLanguage.json
+++ b/vscode-extension/syntaxes/numbat.tmLanguage.json
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
             "patterns": [
                 {
                     "name": "support.function.numbat",
-                    "match": "@(metric_prefixes|binary_prefixes|aliases|name|url|description)\\b"
+                    "match": "@(metric_prefixes|binary_prefixes|aliases|name|url|description|example)\\b"
                 }
             ]
         },